Frances Timbers

'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material, the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317036524
• Artikelnr.: 49352288

Autorenporträt

Frances Timbers holds a PhD in British History from the University of Toronto (2008). She has published two books and three articles that deal with issues of magic, witchcraft and gender in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Timbers is currently on a self-imposed sabbatical in Panama, where she spends her time writing about gypsies, teaching yoga, biking to the beach and caring for seven rescued cats.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'The damned fraternitie': constructing gypsy identity in
early modern England, 1500-1700
1 'From Aegypt have I come'
2 'Gypsies: thieves and tramps?'
3 'Chargeable unto the country'
4 'O'er the Moors to Kirk Yetholm'
5 The narrative of gypsyhood
6 'By lines they read in face and hand'
7 'These rowsey, ragged rabblement of rakehelles': rogue literature
8 'The stain of my offence'